Why Javalin?

Simple

Unlike other Java and Kotlin web frameworks, Javalin has very few concepts that you need to learn.
You never have to extend a class and you rarely have to implement an interface.

Lightweight

Javalin is just a few thousand lines of code on top of Jetty, and
its performance is equivalent to raw Jetty code. Due to its size, it's
very easy to reason about the source code.

Active

A new version of Javalin has been released twice a month (on average) since the first version.
Don't worry though, every non-major version is backwards compatible.
PRs and issues are reviewed swiftly, normally every week.

Interoperable

Other Java and Kotlin web frameworks usually offer separate version for each language.
Javalin is being developed with interoperability in mind, so apps are built the same way in both Java and Kotlin.

Flexible

Javalin is designed to be simple and blocking, as this is the easiest programming model to reason about.
However, if you set a Future as a result, Javalin switches into asynchronous mode.

Educational

Visit our educators page if you're teaching web programming
and looking for a web framework which will get out of your way and let you focus on the
core concepts of your curriculum.

A solid foundation

Jetty

Javalin runs on top of Jetty, one of the most used and stable web-servers on the JVM.
You can configure the Jetty server fully, so you can easily get SSL and HTTP2 and everything else
that Jetty has to offer.

SparkJava and Koa.js

Javalin started as a fork of the Java and Kotlin web framework SparkJava,
but quickly turned into a ground-up rewrite influenced by the Javascript framework koa.js.
Javalin implements lessons learned from working extensively with both of these frameworks.